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Re: Builds on the Sun (Andy Warhol the Destroyer)

"Well, Johnny, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into."

Johnny had a terribly unpleasant childhood, and nobody to talk to to make it easier. So he talked to himself, or at least, he talked to someone like himself. The other Johnny was different from him--he was stronger, and smarter, and the more Johnny talked to the other Johnny, the stronger he got. So the two Johnnys worked together until they were strong enough to get away from all the bad people who were giving them trouble, and then they moved to the big city to really make something of themselves.

That's a pretty vague history, but Johnny usually doesn't examine his origins very closely. Sustaining a delusion powerful enough to warp the physical world nearby is like walking on air in a cartoon: if you think too closely about what you're doing, the entire thing falls apart. What's more concrete is that a strange man with a habit of talking to himself got involved in a nasty bit of paranormal business that no outsiders should have been able to find, and the resulting violence got him a couple years in jail. He made friends in jail that explained to him how things worked in the big city, and when his sentence ended he had a new job as a fixer for the powers that be. There are a lot of dangerous, unpleasant things going on underneath the surface in this city, and Johnny helps make sure they stay quiet and don't disturb people. He has a new name now, too: Janus. He likes it, but the other Johnny isn't quite sold on it yet.

Complications:
Reputation - Criminal Record
Responsibility - The Authorities. Johnny works freelance when he has the time, but the biggest power players in the underworld demand his loyalty and know where to find him.

Johnny here is another character submission I made for a game. One of the inspirations for the game was Batman, so I thought, "Who's my favorite Batman character? Two-Face!" So I made something with a split personality. And then he turned into the protagonist from Deadly Premonition, because that game fascinates me.

The "secondhand" Limitation is there because Johnny doesn't actually see the invisible or sense mystical forces: the other Johnny does. And then the first Johnny gets a "there's something interesting over there, let's go check it out" feeling, with as much detail as the GM feels like giving him.

Complications:
Responsibility - R'aee is the reincarnated princess of an ancient martian civilization, and she fights to defend the earth, and Tokyo in particular, from the forces that destroyed her ancient home.
Secret (Identity)
Temper - R'aee appears stoic and serene on the surface, but she has a short fuse for people who fail to live up to her standards. Living up to the standards of a superhuman magical alien princess is hard.

Re: Builds on the Sun (Sailor Mars)

Tom McGrath has a pretty cool page. You should probably go check it out.

I really, really like airships, so whenever I run a game, I make sure to put some in. Here are stats for some military models that I might be using soon.

For context, these airships are for a world with 1930s to early 1940s weapons technology, so they don't have some of the features you might expect if they existed in the modern world. The chemical process that allows them to fly only works on nonliving organic matter, so they can't be as heavily armored as, say, a tank of the same size could be. I gave them statistics as robots, instead of vehicles, because they're more likely to be things players fight than they are to be things players ride around in.

The machine guns in these builds have "Accurate 2 (Limited to multiple attacks)," which only costs one point and reduces the penalty for attacking multiple targets by up to 4. I think it suits a heavy machine gun designed for continuous fire instead of short bursts. Impervious is intended for use with 2E rules.

Re: Builds on the Sun (Airships)

More airships! These are inspired by the fixed-wing gunships that started to see use in the Vietnam war. Compared to assault gunships, they prioritize quantity over quality, carrying enough ammunition and automatic weapons to pin down a small army for long periods of time. They have different official names depending on the country, but "vulture" is the unofficial name that usually sticks, because they fly over a battlefield in a circle until everything dies. Vulture airships are relatively lightly armored, so they normally stay far away and use their saturation fire. If they need to attack a single target they can get closer and use targeted fire, but it puts them in more danger so their crews try to avoid it.

I used the Cloud Area extra to represent making a zone uninhabitable through sheer volume of fire. On the one hand, the gunship needs to continue firing on the area to maintain the cloud, but on the other hand, anyone passing between the gunship and the cloud area suffers damage too. On the other other hand, somebody with super strength or Move Object could end the area effect by using something big and sturdy to provide cover...

This is a robot I made while thinking about the Sentinel from Warmachine and the way Multiattack works in M&M. It's a simple build that does one thing: protect its owner. It uses covering fire to give its owner total cover (I assume the intent is total cover rather than partial, just to make covering fire more valuable than an ordinary Aid action), and if that isn't enough to encourage people to target it first, it Interposes to take hits for its owner, too. It even comes in at exactly 90 points, so you can buy your own robot buddy with six ranks in Minion or thirteen in Sidekick.

The way I picture "Protection 2 (Fades)" working is that, the first time the Hoplite takes a big enough hit to get through its Impervious 6 and force it to make a save, it counts as one use. So, it loses one rank of Protection even if it doesn't take any other damage. The second time it has to make a toughness save, it loses the other rank. To get them back it has to be repaired by somebody. The protection it gets from its shield can be bypassed by a surprise attack or an affliction like a Snare that makes it Vulnerable, too, but it doesn't get any extra discount for that. That's just part of the cost of using Equipment.

So: The Hoplite is a nine foot tall robot that stands next to its owner, or whoever its owner tells it to protect, and spews bullets in the general direction of anything that starts to attack them. That's about it.